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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: galannthegreat on April 02, 2009, 06:08:51 PM

Title: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: galannthegreat on April 02, 2009, 06:08:51 PM

I want to know what I will need so on Saturday I can go robot parts shopping and hopefully before Saturday I will have a list of parts I will need to build the programmer.

Any help to links or schematics would be very much appreciated.

With many thanks, Kurt.

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: Webbot on April 02, 2009, 07:36:10 PM

Hi Galan,

I really really really don't want to be rude but - why on earth do you want to make your own programmer ? If you build it then you have no support - so if it doesn't work then who do you call - Ghostbusters  :'(.

It just seems that if you want to create 'robots' that there are lots of other stuff to think about: motors, sensors, code, intelligence,vision, electronics, software etc etc.

I like living in a house: painting and decorating rooms to my own taste etc - but I don't want to buy bricks and cement and build a house - life is too short. Other people do that and they are much better at it than me. Equally I bought a soldering iron rather than making one. I also buy electricity rather than generating my own....... (get the jist?)

Spend the money on a programmer and then start making robots.

Once again - don't mean to sound rude but thats my 'humble opinion'.

Obviously there will be replies from people who have built their own programmer, or even house maybe, saying how easy it was and how they managed to save $30 but their prototypes blew up 10 processors before perfected.

So spend Saturday morning online to your favourite e-store to order a programmer. Then make a list of all the other hardware/chips you need for your robot shopping in the afternoon.

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: GearMotion on April 02, 2009, 07:42:32 PM

Quote from: Webbot on April 02, 2009, 07:36:10 PM

Obviously there will be replies from people who have built their own programmer, or even house maybe, saying how easy it was and how they managed to save $30 but their prototypes blew up 10 processors before perfected.

I built my own programmers when I started. And I was the general contractor for my house. Nothing blew up. In fact the programmer worked perfectly the first time, nothing "blew up".

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: galannthegreat on April 02, 2009, 08:35:24 PM

I am by nature a DIY kind of person, it's the way I learn and troubleshoot, I just want a simple schematic/instructional method to making my own programmer, maybe some USB ones... DB25 port... DB9, anything will help.

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: GearMotion on April 02, 2009, 09:33:55 PM

I'll post something soon.

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: SmAsH on April 03, 2009, 12:53:29 AM

this thread of mine may have some of your answers. http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=7541.0 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=7541.0)

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: galannthegreat on April 03, 2009, 12:33:24 PM

Thanks, this will help quite abit.

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: SmAsH on April 03, 2009, 02:30:21 PM

lok back at my thread, gearmotion posted some really helpful info!

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: galannthegreat on April 03, 2009, 02:38:59 PM

Yea, I definately got some really good info from that thread, thanks again :)

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: GearMotion on April 04, 2009, 02:47:20 PM

Take a look here at a quick blog I put together:

http://circuitgizmos.com/wordpress/?p=272 (http://circuitgizmos.com/wordpress/?p=272)

Title: Re: I making a homemade AVR programmer.
Post by: galannthegreat on April 05, 2009, 10:28:42 AM

Thank you very much to take your time to do this, very, very helpful indeed.